John Larsen Dahl

  Research Notes:

1. Ancestry.com 'Thies family tree' - records him as a Lawyer, admitted to the bar in 1916


2. WW I Draft Card

- birth as 25 Jan 1879
- address - Rice Lake, Barron Co, WI
- occupation - Attorney; employer - self; contact - Lars J Dahl, father, Strum, Barron Co, WI
- tall, medium build, blue eyes, brown hair
- dated 11 Sept 1918


3. 1905 WI State Census - Unity Twp, Barron Co

- living with parents
- occupation - Teacher


4. US Census

a. 1900 - with parents, Unity Twp

b. 1910 - not indexed on Ancestry

c. 1920 - Rice Lake, Barron Co

- John L Dahl, age 37 born in WI; single, Attorney, Office, works on 'own account'

d. 1930 - Chenoa, McLean Co, IL [ abt 150 kms south and east of Chicago ]

- Marie Dahl, head of household, age 45 born in WI; single; Proprietor, Hotel; value $12000
- John L Dahl, lodger, brother, age 51 born in WI; single; Attorney, financials

e. 1940 - Paris, Lamar Co, TX

- John L Dahl, age 56 born in WI; lodger, single; 5 years of College; Attorney, Private Practice - records no income, but has job, works on own account


5. Ancestry.com - Public Member Tree 'owner' Thies

- has a note: "information from Mom: Mom said John never married, but had a girlfriend (Bonnie or Bunnie?) and that they possibly had a baby. They moved to Texas and supposedly bought land for oil, but it was a bust."

[ 14 Dec 2012 --- no evidence of this statement is found from any other source; Also; 'Thies' does not indicate point 6, other than admitted to the Bar in 1916



6. a. From: http://books.google.ca/books?id=uAYnZlEk-iEC&pg=PA98&lpg=PA98&dq=John+L+dahl+born+trempealeau+co,+wi&source=bl&ots=0ysmVJqWhz&sig=azPcuDyw4a9MFHGThFkGFD1KyaI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=9SXLULPJA-uq0AHQ-IB4&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=John%20L%20dahl%20born%20trempealeau%20co%2C%20wi&f=false see file folder for snip created 13 Dec 2012

American Legislative Leaders in the Mid West, 1911-1997, Nancy Weatherly Sharp and James Roger Sharp, editors; Greenwood Press, Westport, CT. 1997.

- Attended River Falls Normal School; Ph.B (Bachelor of Philosophy), University of Wisconsin; degree in Law from Hamilton College in Chicago
- Barron Co Food Adminstrator during WW I; district attornery, 1919-1920;
- Wisconsin State Assembly, 1920 and 1922; Speaker of Assembly in 1923
- later, private practice in Rice Lake (Barron Co); owned a produce company; purebred Holstien farm; and was president of a furniture company in St Paul, MN;
- died 29 May 1943

b. From: www.files.usgwarchives.net/wi/history/bluebook/1923/bios/dahl53nbs.txt ;;; 1923

- Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, 1923
- lawyer with Dahl and Gannon, Rice Lake
- graduated from Osseo High School
- admitted to the bar in 1916
- taught as a High School Principal and City Superintendent of Schools; county Food Administrator during the period of Federal Food Administration
- farm raising purebred Holstien cattle in Barron Co, produce company in Rice Lake, and a furnace company in St Paul



7. US City directory - ancestry

- no listing in 1917, Trempealeau
- nothing for Rice Lake
- nothing for Madison
- Paris, Texas - nothing for 1944; 1940 (p. 53) - residence 417 Lamar Av (only person listed)
nothing for 1936



8. Death

- from Wisconsin Historical Society genealogy name index -- http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/vitalrecords/index.asp?id=20897&record_type=wni
--- obituary recorded in Wisconsin Necrology - Vol 49, page 59


Wisconsin Necrology
- from http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/WIIOWA/2005-01/1104885305

The Wisconsin Necrology is 52 scrapbooks created by librarians at the Wisconsin Historical Society between 1860 and 1950. It contains nearly 30,000 obituaries clipped from newspapers and magazines. It doesn't contain every obituary but only those for people who were prominent in their local communities. These range from a few paragraphs to several pages in length, and many contain photos. Only a few obituaries are included for people who died before 1860 or after 1950. ^{4128,4468,4470}

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Residence - 1900, 1 Jun 1900, Unity Twp, Trempealeau Co, Wisconsin, United States. ⁴¹⁸¹

2. Residence - 1920, 1 Jan 1920, Rice Lake, Barron Co, Wisconsin, United States. ⁴⁴⁷¹ Enumeration on 17 Jan 1920; Address, Main St

3. Residence - 1930, 1 Apr 1930, Chenoa, McLean Co, Illinois, United States. ⁴⁴⁷² Enumeration on 26 Apr 1930; Address - Green St

4. Residence - 1935, 1 Apr 1935, Strum, Trempealeau Co, Wisconsin, United States. ⁴⁴⁷³

5. Residence - 1940, 1 Apr 1940, Paris, Lamar Co, Texas, United States. ⁴⁴⁷³ Enumeration on 30 Apr 1940; Address - Lamar Ave